Sunsilk Engagement and Innovation Director

About B&W

Beauty & Wellbeing (B&W) includes some of Unilever’s most exciting categories including Skin Care and Hair Care with brands like Dove, Sunsilk, Clear and Vaseline. We are also home to our Prestige portfolio of luxury brands such as Dermalogica, Hourglass and Living Proof; and Health & Wellbeing, a carefully crafted collection of Vitamins, Minerals and Supplements brands including Liquid I.V., Nutrafol and OLLY.

We are building a unified and mutually supportive team of people who are beauty and wellbeing-obsessed, consumer-focused and driven by a passion for winning. Our role is to add value to our brands, deliver tangible beauty benefits through our products, create desire, and pioneer trends.

With more than 1 billion people using our products every day, we have an opportunity to use our scale for good. We’re embracing a new era of beauty and wellbeing. One that’s inclusive. Equitable. Regenerative. Positive. So that people and the planet can thrive together.

About Sunsilk

Sunsilk is one of the billion-euro brands for Unilever and the biggest haircare brand of Unilever, housed under a newly created division of Beauty and Wellbeing. As a cornerstone brand for the hair category, the agenda on Sunsilk is to drive growth and assert our leadership as a future-fit hair care brand. Sunsilk is a global brand with sizeable footprints in LATAM, SEA, SA and Middle East/Turkey. Across markets, our ambition is to build strong brand experiences that will continue to drive growth and brand power.

Purpose of the Job

The role of Sunsilk Global Engagement and Innovation Director reports into the Global Brand VP Sunsilk & Tresemme (based in UK).   This role will give you the opportunity to put your mark on the future of Sunsilk by delivering the new communication and engagement strategy in key countries together with key innovation projects.

• Lead a team of Brand and Beauty Crafters that will deliver the sustained growth of the brand in the challenging hair category
• Lead key innovations projects – Core and Future Core
• Deliver the brand transformation through a new & unified brand world
• Deliver communication & engagement activities
• Lead engagement activities and build an engagement platform for the brand – music.
• Lead creation of assets & content that will enable the brand to maximize precision/targeted marketing on digital and social media.
• Play a key role in leading work with creative & production agencies to develop & deliver creative assets 
• Support in designing a holistic brand experience, develop a Communication repeatable model, explore new media models, and lead brand experience in the digital & social arena

What You’ll Need to Succeed

• 10+ years in Marketing with experience in Beauty / Premium & social-first brands.
• Obsession with brands & consumers, Sense of Aesthetics, Analytical Thinking & Rigour
• Has strong eye for beauty
• Beauty Ecosystem, Activity and Innovation Leadership
• Consumer insight and category knowledge

• Previous experience in global / brand crafting marketing role and with fully operational skills on: 
  • Designing best-in-class storytelling brand engagement experiences 
  • Create brand engagement through full consumer journey with social first in mind
  • Leading and inspiring bold creative work 
  • Deep understanding of media landscape with keen focus on social and digital, Others Say and how to win in the marketplace
  • Global experience: especially LATAM and Asia.

NOTES

About Unilever

Unilever is one of the world’s leading suppliers of Food, Home and Personal Care products with sales in over 190 countries and reaching 2 billion consumers a day. Unilever has more than 400 brands found in homes around the world, including Dove, Tresemme, Lynx, Lifebuoy, Shea Moisture, Persil, Domestos, Ben & Jerry’s, Magnum, Marmite, The Vegetarian Butcher, Graze and Pot Noodle.

Faced with the challenge of climate change and the need for human development, we want to move towards a world where everyone can live well and within the natural limits of the planet. That’s why our purpose is ‘to make sustainable living commonplace’ 

Location

In June 2020 we announced our plan to consolidatea number of Unilever’s offices across the South East of England into a new Unilever campus in Kingston-upon-Thames in or around early 2025. However, on the 08 August 2024 we announced to our existing staff our proposal to retain our central Head Office in London, 100 Victoria Embankment (“100VE”) until our lease expires in 2027. As a result of this new proposal, we will be consulting with our existing staff, and new joiners who join during this period of consultation at 100VE, on the proposal made in August 2024. During consultation we will clarify the future location of each team and function. This means your role will either be based in 100VE until 2027 or in Kingston-Upon-Thames from early 2025. As we are yet to commence consultation on the proposal you agree, until such a time when consultation has concluded, your normal place of work as set out in the enclosed Statement of Terms & Conditions will be 100VE. You agree that on the conclusion of the consultation your place of work will be 100VE or 100VE until early 2025 and then Kingston-upon-Thames ("the locations") and you will be notified of which of the locations will be your place of work after that consultation ends.

What We Offer

Not only do we offer a competitive salary and pension scheme, we also offer an annual bonus, subsidised gym membership, a discounted staff shop and shares. You’ll have the opportunity to work directly with our renowned and exciting brands in a flexible and hybrid working environment.

Whilst the role is advertised on a full-time basis, we would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options and what this may look like for you. We are a key advocate of wellbeing and offer a variety of support for our people including hubs, programmes and development opportunities. We strive to achieve a family-friendly and inclusive workplace and to, above all, create possibilities for all.

Diversity at Unilever is about inclusion, embracing differences, creating possibilities and growing together for better business performance. We embrace diversity in our workforce. This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity. We are also more than happy to provide reasonable adjustments during our application and interview process to enable you to be present your best self. To find out more, including about our Employee Resource Groups, please click here Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at Unilever | Unilever.

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